Dr Katherine Bowman
Katherine began her undergraduate medical degree at The University of St Andrews, where she was awarded the Dean’s Prize for Medicine. She completed her MBChB at The University of Manchester, graduating in 2013 and has remained in the North West for postgraduate training. Katherine is now a senior registrar in Paediatrics working across Greater Manchester and Lancashire.
Alongside her clinical career, Katherine has experience in quality improvement and quality assurance. She worked for the General Medical Council as an Education Visitor and building on this experience became a Specialist Advisor for the Care Quality Commission, inspecting paediatric and maternity services and contributing to written reports on service evaluation.
Katherine has a long-standing interest in medical education, and led a pioneering UK-wide events programme, delivering training to students and doctors on teaching skills, as well as organising a national conference. She has experience in mentoring aspiring medical students and has completed training to become a near-peer mentor to paediatric trainees. During her tenure as Vice-Chair of the North West Medical Leadership School she organised a series of events for trainees across the region.
Alongside working as a paediatric registrar, and being mum to two small children, Katherine has recently completed a Masters level module on medical leadership. Katherine currently sits on the regional teaching committee and is a regional RCPCH representative for less than full time trainees. She is a qualified instructor of Advanced Paediatric Life Support and teaches on courses regularly.
Reason for applying for the scheme
As a senior paediatric registrar, Katherine recognises the systemic issues affecting her day-to-day practice, such as problems with workforce planning, wider determinants of health, and regional health inequalities. In order to address these issues, Katherine aspires to be a clinician involved in strategic decision making; able to influence the direction of service provision, delivering research and education, all whilst remaining passionate about advocating for children and young people’s health and wellbeing.
Katherine is excited about taking up her post with the Care Quality Commission. She hopes it will give her the opportunity to work on problem-solving projects with longer time scales across different agencies and to understand how other organisations influence service provision and resources. Time away from clinical work will allow Katherine to focus on her professional development as a leader and she looks forward to developing her leadership skills under expert mentorship.
